A nurse named Esperanza has a child who has caught a form of influenza resistant to ordinary antibiotics. He is dying. She knows doctors in the hospital where she works are testing a drug that can save her son’s life. The drug is scheduled to be released to the public in one month. She appeals to the doctors to administer the new, more potent drug known to cure the influenza, but the doctors refuse to allow her to have a life-saving dose of the new drug because the company that owns the drug has forbidden its early release. Esperanza,, determined to save her child’s life, breaks into the laboratory freezer, steals a dose of the drug, and administers it to her dying child.

Should Esperanza have done that?